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Melbourne House, Volume 2

CHAPTER IV
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"Don't you like to go in a boat, Nora ?" "I like it if it don't lean over too far," said Nora.

"I thought it was going to turn over once or twice, when I was out with Marmaduke that time.

I was afraid." "I am not afraid with papa," said Daisy.

"I know he can manage it." "Why so can Marmaduke manage it," said Nora; "and he said I needn't be afraid; but I was." The carriages took the whole party down to the shore in a few minutes.
There lay the sail-boat all ready, her sails shaken out; and James and Sam, on board already, received basket after basket from the hands of Logan and the coachman and stowed them away in what seemed to be a place of ample accommodations.

Daisy and Nora, hand in hand, stood on the shore looking at all that was done, and with eager eyes.


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